Mr. Chairman, this is an attempt to enhance the safety on our highways. I would expect the Member’s constituents would be happy to know that there are laws that require people to clean their headlights and their taillights and to have indicators so that people are clearly visible, especially on the gravel roads where there’s a lot of dust. This is not intended to target people that are travelling in storms or muddy conditions. It’s actually intended to protect the people on our highway systems from motorists that are acting, probably, in a careless manner. The RCMP and the people we have contacted all agree that it’s difficult and will probably not be want to issue tickets or fines to anybody that are travelling in conditions that make it difficult to have their taillights clean. But if there are conditions where the road is dry and there is a need to have vehicles visible through the dust and other challenges including fog, then there’s no reason that a person shouldn’t have his taillights cleaned. There is current legislation that requires us to have our windshields and our licence

plates. We’re building on that and requesting the regulations be changed to include taillights.